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complete tlic guarantee of impartiality offered to the competitors; the names of 

 the latter may, at their own request, be affixed to their respective plans during 

 this second exhibition, which will continue but for twenty days, during which 

 no piece can be withdrawn. 



The general conditions Jbr llic ^Vicar jtrize [are substantially the same with 

 those previously given. J Each memoir transmitted remains the property uf the 

 society, with liberty to the authors to have copies made at their own expense, 

 but this does not apply to paintings, designs, plans, and models intended for 

 competition in the fine arts ; in that for architecture the work to wliich the prize 

 has been adjudged will be the property of the society, and may be published by 

 the latter. For all further information recourse should be had to the secretary- 

 general of the society, P. Guiraudet. 



DUNKIRK SOCIETY (S0CI15t£ DUNKERQUOISE) FOR THE ENCOURAGB- 

 MENT OF SCIENCES, LETTERS, AND ARTS.— PROGRAMME OF SUBJECTS 

 FOR COMPETITION— 18(56. 



In the regular meeting of 1866 the society will award, if occasion be afforded, 

 a gold medal for the best memoir on each of the following subjects : 



SCIENCES. 



I. Study upon naval constructions. — To treat of the history of naval constrno- 

 tions, and of the progress successively made therein at Dunkirk ; to examine 

 particularl}' the iniluence of the modes of building on the sailing of vessels pro- 

 pelled by wind. 



II. Study on the fauna of maritime Flanders. — The author may, at his choice, 

 treat of the ornithological fauna, or of the entomological fauna, or of the concho- 

 logical description ; the parts not treated of will remain for competition in fol- 

 lowing years. 



LETTERS. 



III. A history of Dunkirk for the use of the young. — A sum of one hundred 

 francs has, in this case, been added as a donation to the medal of the society by 

 an anonymous contributor. The object proposed is not a long and elaborate 

 work, but a series of detached lectures, wherein the most important facts of the 

 history of Dunkirk may be appropriately placed in relief. In the opinion of 

 the society, such a work should not, at its greatest extent, exceed 250 pages 

 12mo. 



IV. An unpublished memoir on a subject relative to the history or archaeo- 

 logy of maritime Flanders. 



ARTS. 



V. Architecture. — Design of a monument commemorative of the battle of 

 Dunes, (1658,) to be erected on the site of that battle. 



COMPETITION FOR 1867. 



Sciences. — A succinct history of cotton manufactures in the north of France, 

 from the origin of that branch of industry to the present day, under the twofold 

 relation of the labor in cotton and its hygiene ; with an appreciation of the pro- 

 gress achieved and an indication of the ameliorations desirable, especially in a 

 hygienic point of view. The sojourn in the workshops, through the absorption 

 of the du<t, having been found to generate certain affections of the respiratory 

 organs, the proposed treatise should be adapted to serve as a sort of manual for 

 the use of manufacturers and workmen. 



